Christian Capurro

An artist, photographer and filmmaker using digital and analogue tools, media and processes in pursuit of very particular images, image systems, and the 'imaginaires' of our day whose touch and sustained pressure is daily felt. The work, often photo-graphist in approach, betrays a fascination with bodies, reproduction, (mis)translation, and erasure.

The multi-channel video installations SLAVE, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and a man held, Centre for Contemporary Photography, are representative of the recent experimental mobile-phone film and installation making. Selected notable presentations in other media have taken place at MASS MoCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, STUK Kunstencentrum, Artspace, West Space, the Institute of Modern Art, and, with the multi-faceted Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette project, the Venice Biennale of International Art.

Interview (1998), The John McBride Collection archive catalogues, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

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Public Collections

UQ Art Museum, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales | John Kaldor Family Collection, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, National Gallery of Australia, Monash University Museum of Art & University of Western Sydney.